I like the idea of keeping a moderation queue, but on my site with the (retain) feature enabled I receive over 1000 spams a day. It would be great if I could have an option to control the "spaminess" tolerance for this queue. In other words, content that is very spamy and fails mollom is placed into the moderation queue unless it has a spaminess above a defined level. This way I could minimize my work yet still ensure that if a legitimate post that just happens to be related to viagra or cheap double-glazing it has a good chance of landing in my moderation queue rather than being automatically discarded.

Does anyone else think this might be useful? If the mollom api does have an accessible spaminess rating for each post then this shouldn't be hard to implement right? Like instead of having just

When text analysis identifies spam:
Automatically discard the post
Retain the post for manual moderation

we could have something like

When text analysis identifies spam:
Automatically discard the post
Retain the post for manual consideration if the likelihood that the post is spam does not exceed: [TEXTFIELD]
Always retain the post for manual moderation

This would also greatly increase the quality of suggestions that mollom receives, as it would target moderation on posts that represent the greatest source unreliability in mollom (ie. false positives).

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sun
Primary language German
Location Karlsruhe
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Unfortunately, for now, this is not possible to do, because the Mollom web service does not return a "spaminess score" for a post.

Mollom purposively does not return that, because otherwise, malicious spammers could simply setup a Drupal site along with the Mollom module in order to tweak their spam posts until Mollom lets them through.

It may be possible that this might change in the future, and if it is going to happen, we'll certainly revisit this issue.